Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 27:15

15 And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive.

Being forced from Crete, and the ship no longer at the command of the Mariners, but in the sole power of the Winds.

The ship could not keep her course, the Winds being contrary; so that her Prow or Head (part whereof was called, The Eye of the ship, and on which its Name was formerly, as now at the Stern, inscribed) could not bear up according as their course did require; whence that Expression, [non-Latin text not transcribed], which is here used. Sic quo non volitit, sed quo rapit impetus undae.